Travel

Not all vacations are equally beneficial. Learn how to make the most of yours.

Many years ago, while navigating a busy airport with my husband and two young children, I noticed a toddler wandering through the crowd alone. The child, who was no more ...

Planning a trip for the holidays? If you have a heart condition, take these precautions to ensure a safe flight.

We can adopt zeitgebers to reset our circadian rhythms and use other strategies to help our bodies adapt to daylight savings time, jet lag, or shift work.

Editor's Note: Camping is a quintessential pastime of autumn. For some, a meal in the great outdoors means cracking a can of beans and grabbing a spoon as preparing and ...

Every year, across the world, millions of drivers experience vehicular breakdowns. Finding yourself on the side of the road can be frustrating, scary, and even dangerous. Thankfully, there are several ...

Taking time for a vacation provides a much-needed hiatus to unwind from our hectic schedules. However, a vacation can also feel like an invitation to let our diets and exercise ...

Recommendations from local Athenians who know all the best places in 'the Glorious City' of antiquity

The kids and your significant other want to head to the slopes, but you’re thinking you won't have much fun in the snow. Maybe, like me, you can’t this year. ...

By John Meyer From The Denver Post Colorado’s newest overnight backcountry experience offers the pleasures that come with backcountry hut skiing in a spectacular setting, but without the burden of ...

Washington—Attention world travelers: Check your passports, now. The State Department is taking longer than usual to issue new U.S. passports, and to renew existing passports, because record numbers of Americans are ...

I love to scamper, at low tide, shoes in my hands, far from shore, across the mudflat in the vast Bay of Mont St-Michel. Splashing across black sand and through ...

The Department of Transportation (DoT) labored mightily and came up with a—dashboard? After weeks of announcements of great consumer gains, the single positive result is a DoT "dashboard" that summarizes ...

By George Hobica From Tribune News Service Trust me on this, traveler: Sending picture postcards to friends and family spreads joy back home and in the process reveals aspects of ...

By Seth Boster From The Gazette Colorado Springs—In the summer of 2020, India Wood was hiking the countryside somewhere off Interstate 70 between Edwards and Wolcott. “I really had to ...

Look down on Washington's Yakima Valley in springtime and you'll see one of the great agricultural landscapes of America—miles of lush, green fields of hops, acres of blossoming fruit trees ...

By Todd Martens From Los Angeles Times Los Angeles—I'm about to take a bite from a slice of Key lime pie at the Toothsome Chocolate Emporium when a host named ...

Entering the town of Winchester, Virginia, is like traveling back in time. My recent visit echoed those of Shawnee and other Native American tribes who lived for thousands of years ...

By Lynn O’Rourke Hayes From FamilyTravel.com The pandemic-era popularized the idea of “trip stacking,” a concept that encourages crafting a backup to your primary travel plan. Busy families often face ...

Travel encourages us to sample from a sensory feast. On your next trip, encourage family members to tune in to their senses. Here are five ways to deepen the experience ...

Plan a great American road trip adventure

Dallas—Public safety concerns have spiked around travel to Mexico, with the kidnapping of four U.S. citizens in the northern Mexico border city of Matamoros. The visitors had just crossed the ...

The airline gurus are predicting a boom in transatlantic travel this summer. They're also saying that airfares will be higher than pre-pandemic—maybe up to 30 percent. And last but not ...

Salamanca’s Plaza Mayor, Spain’s grandest square, seems to celebrate life. Strolling across the square with Carlos, my guide, we passed a young man walking alone who suddenly burst into song. ...

By Colleen Thomas From Tribune News Service Niagara Falls–The grandeur of Niagara Falls keeps tourists seeking new and better views of the natural wonder—and it’s easy to find them. On ...

The waters were unusually calm, the last rays of an equatorial sun just starting to heat up the surface of a loping Pacific swell. The broad rollers transformed, changing from ...

High above Quito is a surreal village in the cloud forest